I was bitching about not wanting to deal with an Xmas tree in my apartment and wanting to just put up a fake one. My girlfriend (who was between apartments and living with me at the time) schemed the best way to get me to relent. I got home from work one day and she had bought burgundy and gold ornament balls, a Clinton Portis ornament (kind of like a ceramic action figure) and a foam finger to put on top as the "star".

I figured if shes willing to go that far to make it "my" tree I could certainly oblige her with a live one!

PS-I think it was March before I finally took that dry-ass tree out of my apartment...